<p>It's the last place you'd expect to experience interactive media - the graveyard.</p><br /><p>But a company in one small Austrian town has come up with a novel way of remembering lost loved ones...</p><br /><p>Aspetos is etching so-called Quick Response codes into gravestones...meaning anyone with a Smartphone - and proper authorization - will be able to unlock a treasure trove of memories simply by scanning the code.</p><br /><p>This new virtual dimension to that unavoidable reality offers customers the opportunity to craft how their loved ones will be remembered.<br /><br />QR codes are used widely in advertising and media.</p><br /><p>These ones will go 'live' in a matter of weeks, but ensuring they don't fade with time has its challenges.</p><br /><p>Vienna's central cemetery is the site of Beethoven's grave and a monument honoring Mozart.</p><br /><p>There are no current plans to tag these landmarks with QR codes, but should that eventually happen it would surely change the experience of paying respects.</p><br /><p>That famous line from Gladiator: what you do in life echoes in eternity, seems all the more true now with the rise of QR codes and Smartphone's.</p>
